MOTTO WARE CREAMER - WATCOMBE TORQUAY ENGLAND

Description: COTTAGE WARE MOTTO WARE CREAMER - WATCOMBE TORQUAY ENGLAND - NEWQUAY "Take a little cream" Features a house with fireplace - and trees Beige or "cream" color surface with brown and green decorations and a blue ring around base. This little motto ware pitcher or jug was made of pottery in England. The motto reads "Take a little cream". The cream pitcher measures approximately 2&3/4 inches tall and about 4 inches across spout to handle. I assume used but in excellent "as new" condition - no faults. No chips, cracks or scratches.No paint loss.(See all photos) Torquay pottery or Torquay ware is pottery made in Torquay, Devon, England, using local clay, at one of fifteen or so local potteries chiefly serving the tourist trade.The commonest form was mottoware - pottery such as plates or jugs decorated with inspirational or humorous text, often written in a Devon dialect,and thus known as Devon mottoware. Some items were produced in Cornish dialect, for "export" to, and sale in, Cornwall. The first pottery, the "Watcombe Terra Cotta Clay Company"[3] (later Watcombe Pottery; acquired in 1901 by the nearby Aller Vale Pottery), was established in 1875 by G. J. Allen, after he discovered a particularly fine clay in the grounds of Watcombe House. Mottware is famous and fun pottery has been manufactured in the south of England in Torquay, Devon and surrounding area, from the 1870s until the factories closed in the 1960s. SMOKE FREE ENVIRONMENT LOW STARTING BID THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY OTHER eBay LISTINGS

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